Enacted parts

ARTICLE 225-12-5
(Inserted by Act no. 2003-239 of 18 March 2003 Article 64 11° Official Journal of 19 March 2003)
Exploitation of begging is committed when a person in any way:
1° organises begging by another, with a view to profiting from it;
2° profits from another person's begging, shares the proceeds or receives income from a person who habitually
engages in begging;
3° hires, trains or corrupts a person in order to start them begging or exercises pressure on a person for them to
beg or to continue to do so;
4° for his personal gain, hires, trains or corrupts a person into offering services on a public highway in return for a
donation.
The fact of being unable to account for an income compatible with one's lifestyle while in practice influencing the
behaviour of one or more persons who practise begging, or being in a constant relationship with him or them, is
assimilated to the exploitation of begging.
Exploitation of begging is punished by three years' imprisonment and by a fine of €45,000.
ARTICLE 225-12-6
(Inserted by Act no. 2003-239 of 18 March 2003 Article 64 I 1° Official Journal of 19 March 2003)
The exploitation of begging is punished by five year's imprisonment and by a fine of €75, 000 when it is committed:
1° against a minor;
2° where it is committed against a person whose particular vulnerability, due to age, sickness, infirmity, a physical of
psychological disability or to pregnancy, is apparent or known to the perpetrator;
3° against two or more;
4° against a person who was incited to start begging either outside the territory of the French Republic, or upon his
arrival on the territory of the French Republic;
5° by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of the person begging, or by any other person having authority
over him or who misuses the authority conferred by his position;
6° with the use of constraint, violence or fraudulent behaviour towards the person who is begging, or his family or
another person in habitual contact with him;
7° by two or more persons acting as perpetrators or accomplices, although not constituting an organised gang.